Towards an Information Theory of Complex Networks Statistical Methods and Applications

For over a decade, complex networks have steadily grown as an important tool across a broad array of academic disciplines, with applications ranging from physics to social media. A  tightly organized collection of carefully-selected papers on the subject, Towards an Information Theory of Complex Net...

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Other Authors: Dehmer, Matthias (Editor), Emmert-Streib, Frank (Editor), Mehler, Alexander (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA Birkhäuser 2011, 2011
Edition:1st ed. 2011
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Entropy of Digraphs and Infinite Networks
  • An Information-Theoretic Upper Bound on Planar Graphs Using Well-orderly Maps
  • Probabilistic Inference Using Function Factorization and Divergence Minimization
  • Wave Localization on Complex Networks
  • Information-Theoretic Methods in Chemical Graph Theory
  • On the Development and Application of Net-Sign Graph Theory
  • The Central Role of Information Theory in Ecology
  • Inferences About Coupling from Ecological Surveillance Monitoring
  • Markov Entropy Centrality
  • Social Ontologies as Generalizedd Nearly Acyclic Directed Graphs
  • Typology by Means of Language Networks
  • Information Theory-Based Measurement of Software
  • Fair and Biased Random Walks on Undirected Graphs and Related Entropies